Wikipedia Strikes Again

I had aspirations of getting a lot of work done today.  But instead, I lost over two hours to Wikipedia.

It's happened before.  I started out on the page for the Halifax Explosion, as we live near the memorial park for the event.  The Explosion is touted as the largest manmade explosion until the Atomic Bomb.

So of course, I ended up following through and reading up on the A-Bomb, which then led me to the Little Boy and the Fat Man, and the gunshot-style design versus the implosion-style design.  This led me to the properties of Uranium-235 and Plutonium-239, which then led me to the strong and weak nuclear forces, which then led me to ionizing radiation, which led me to the Curies and Becquerel, which led me to quarks and gluons, which led me to...

You get the picture.  I'll never get that morning back.

I'm not even sure I actually learned anything.  Stupid hyperlinks.

Comments (3) September 23, 2008